universales lanzallamas discoveries aguafuertes

books:

El Amor Brujo (Biblioteca Clasica Y Contemporanea)
Roberto Arlt

Losada, 2001

El Juguete Rabioso
Roberto Arlt

Reysa, 2005

Mad Toy

1 review
Roberto Arlt

Duke University Press, 2002

Mad or Angry?
Perhaps the title should of been 'Angry Toy', as Arlt's vision is one of the urban, alienated protagonists of his work being God's Angry Toys. This is Arlt's first novel and contains the seeds of all his further output. The story relates the activities of one Silvio Astier, street kid, thief, exploited employee and betrayor. His story is told with enormous(and angry)energy. Whether in terse ...

Assumed Name (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review Pr)) (Discoveries (Latin American Literary Review ...

1 review
Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Arlt

Latin Amer Literary Review Pr, 1995

Quite Argentinian short stories
Piglia writes in his prologue to Assumed Name, that the story that gives its name to the book is perhaps the best he has ever written. He migth be rigth. What I can tell is that the short stories that compounds the book are a mixture of two generic kind of themes. The first one is a sort of vision on the, sometimes sordid, lifes of poor urban Argentinians. The second is related to the moral ...

El Juguete Rabioso

2 reviews
Roberto Arlt

Ediciones Colihue, 1993

Madness, rage and Arlt
The first novel of the great argentinian writer Roberto Arlt is like a bullet coming straight to your head. All the anger and envy that a human being can have is condensed here. Originally released at the late 20, it has not lost any of his incredible power. You can't expect less from the author of "Los siete locos". JUL

Seven Madmen

6 reviews
Roberto Arlt

David R Godine Pub, 1984

Latin American Literature at its Finest
Arlt would have turned 100 this year, but his novels are still with us. Written when he was 26, Arlt's life is a perfect metaphor of deja vu: he's a similar case as Dostoevsky: sick, a failure as an inventor, has to write and publish his books in chapters because of his debts, died young, at 42, but left behind one of the most ironic and intelligent protagonists: The Astrologer: ...

Lanzallamas, Los
ARLT ROBERTO, 2007

Con Los lanzallamas -dice el autor- finaliza la novela de Los siete locos . y retoma en este libro los personajes de aquél pero tratándolos individualmente. con la prosa un tanto desmañada pero fuertemente expresiva que le es característica. producto de los convulsionados años que le tocó vivir y que culminaron con la crisis de 1930.Inconformista y denunciador de las lacras sociales y de todo tipo de hipocresía. el mismo Arlt expresa en el ...